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 Records in the countries emigrated from are kept on the local level. You must first identify the '''name of the town''' where your ancestors lived to access those records. If you do not yet know the name of the town of your ancestor's birth, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt for it.
 *[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']]
+==Background==
-The "[[United States Emigration and Immigration|United States Emigration and Immigration]]" Wiki article lists several important sources for finding information about immigrants. These nationwide sources include many references to people who settled in Michigan. [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] introduces the principles, search strategies, and additional record types you can use to identify an immigrant ancestor's hometown.
+*Pre-statehood settlers of Michigan generally came from '''New York, Ohio, the New England states, and Ontario'''.
+*Many immigrants from '''Germany and the Netherlands''' arrived by 1850. Later arrivals were '''Scandinavian, Irish, Cornish, Italian, and Polish'''. A helpful source on Michigan immigrants is:
-*Pre-statehood settlers of Michigan generally came from New York, Ohio, the New England states, and Ontario. Many immigrants from Germany and the Netherlands arrived by 1850. Later arrivals were Scandinavian, Irish, Cornish, Italian, and Polish. A helpful source on Michigan immigrants is:
 ::Vander Hill, C. Warren. ''Settling the Great Lakes Frontier: Immigration to Michigan, 1837–1924''. Lansing, Michigan: Michigan Historical Commission, 1970. {{FHL|200702|item|disp=FHL book 977.4 W2v}}.)